Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"Man has been termed, with strict propriety, a microcosm, a little world in himself."Work: A Vindication of the Rights of Men in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burkehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17545
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17545"A few fundamental truths meet the first enquiry of reason, and appear as clear to an unwarped mind, as that air and bread are necessary to enable the body to fulfil its vital functions; but the opinions which men discuss with so much heat must be simplified and brought back to first principles; ...Work: A Vindication of the Rights of Men in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burkehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17541
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17541"The passions are necessary auxiliaries of reason: a present impulse pushes us forward, and when we discover that the game did not deserve the chace, we find that we have gone over much ground, and not only gained many new ideas, but a habit of thinking."Work: A Vindication of the Rights of Men in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burkehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17537
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17537"From the many just sentiments interspersed through the letter before me, and from the whole tendency of it, I should believe you to be a good, though a vain man, if some circumstances in your conduct did not render the inflexibility of your integrity doubtful; and for this vanity a knowledge of ...Work: A Vindication of the Rights of Men in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burkehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17527
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17527"Montesquieu, President of the Parliament of Bordeaux, went as far as a writer under a despotic government could well proceed; and being obliged to divide himself between principle and prudence, his mind often appears under a veil, and we ought to give him credit for more than he has expressed."Work: The Rights of Man: Being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French revolution.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18434
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18434"The subject of his waking thoughts still haunted his imagination, and the stranger, whose voice he had this night recognized as that of the prophet of Paluzzi, appeared before him."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20362
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20362"Her heart was possessed by evil passions, and all her perceptions were distorted and discoloured by them, which, like a dark magician, had power to change the fairest scenes into those of gloom and desolation."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20354
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20354"At the extravagance of her suspicions, however, and the weakness of her terrors, she blushed, and endeavoured to resist that propensity to fear, which nerves long pressed upon had occasioned in her mind."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20350
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20350"Over the gloom of Schedoni, no scenery had, at any moment, power; the shape and paint of external imagery gave neither impression or colour to his fancy."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20347
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20347"Of this event, or of her mother, Ellena had no remembrance; for the kindness of Bianchi had obliterated from her mind the loss and the griefs of her early infancy; and she recollected only the accident which had discovered to her, in Bianchi's cabinet, after the death of the latter, the miniatur...Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20345
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